Casey Chan

You read that right. The Pirate Bay is the one doing the suing over copyright infringement this time. Even more hilariously, The Pirate Bay says it will sue CIAPC, an anti-piracy group, for copyright infringement. The Pirate Bay is completely serious! It has already asked the policy to investigate its claim that CIAPC has copied The Pirate Bay.

The issue stems from CIAPC copying The Pirate Bay's website and CSS file, complete with sinking ship. It's a violation of The Pirate Bay's usage policy which specifically "prohibits organizations' use of any site material without permission." And though CIAPC is quite obviously mocking The Pirate Bay in its parody website, 'parody' apparently doesn't apply in Finnish law. Here's what the CIAPC website looks like:

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The Pirate Bay says:

"While The Pirate Bay may have a positive view on copying, it will not stand by and watch copyright enforcing organizations disrespect copyright... CIAPC is like an ugly high school bully without friends. It's time to take a stand. Cyber bullying is a serious matter to us all."

If you think The Pirate Bay is selling out here and forgetting where they came from, you'd be wrong. The Pirate Bay, bless their heart, will donate any awarded damages to a nine-year-old girl who had her laptop confiscated by the police (who were alerted of her 'pirating' files by, yup, the CIAPC). So as hilarious as it is to see The Pirate Bay sue somebody for copyright infringement, it's really about the evils of anti-piracy groups who refuse to get off their high horse and/or enjoy having a stick permanently lodged in their ass. [TorrentFreak]